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[Phil Anthos]

Ephesus, Ionia

390-320 BC AR Diobol (10mm, 1.02g) O: Bee with straight wings, within dotted border. R: Confronted heads of two stags; EΦ above. SNG Cop 242-43; SNG von Aulock 1835; SNG München 32; Sear 4375v; BMC Ionia 53, 53;  ex Forvm Ancient Coins Next: 5th century BC

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CARIA, Mylasa
450-400 BCE
AR hemiobol, 7 x 9 mm, 0.5 gm
Obv: facing forepart of lion
Rev: scorpion within incuse square
Ref: SNG von Aulock 7803; Klein 429 (Milet)

Next:  6th century BCE

[Phil Anthos]

Velia, Lucania

535-480 BC AR Obol (8mm, 0.61g) O: Forepart of lion right, tearing at stag's leg. R: Irregular incuse square. Williams 34-35; SNG ANS 1221; HN Italy 1261; HGC I, 1337v (lion left) Rare ex LAC Next: 1st century CE

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😟 My inner completionist wanted to post a 7th century BCE coin first...🤣  Granted, Lydian lion trite only just barely skim the 7th century.

1st century it is then.

LYDIA, Sardes
Germanicus and Drusus
Initially struck CE 23-26?
restruck by Asinius Pollio, proconsul of Asia under Caligula, CE ~37-38?, with special ring dies
Æ26, 13.78 gm
Obv: ΔPOYΣOΣ KAI ΓEPMANIKOΣ NEIOI ΘEOI ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOI; Germanicus and Drusus seated left on curule chairs, one holding lituus.
Rev: ΓAIΩ AΣINNIΩ ΠΩΛΛIΩNI ANΘYΠATΩ; KOINOY/ AΣIAΣ within wreath
Ref: RPC 2995, Sear 365 
  

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Domitian, AD 83., AE23 of Caesaria Maritima, Judea. 10.88 gr. 23mm IMP DOMITIANVS CAES AVG GERMANICVS, laureate head left / No legend, Minerva standing left, holding shield and spear, placing helmet on trophy consisting of cuirass, two shields and spears, two crossed greaves at bottom. Hendin 1455, Meshorer TJC 392, RPC II 2305, SNG ANS 492-494.

NEXT: Trophy

[Phil Anthos]

Syracuse, Reign of Agathokles

317-289 BC AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.14g) O: Wreathed head of Kore (Persephone) right, wearing pendant earring and necklace; KOPAΣ behind. R: Nike standing right, hammer in right hand, erecting trophy; triskeles to lower left, [ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΙΟΣ] behind, all within dotted border. Struck between 313–295 BC. HGC 2, 1536; SNG ANS 670-76; SNG Cop 766ff; Sear 972v; BMC 388v ex Museum Surplus “Kore, the Girl, is so intimately associated with her mother Demeter that they are often referred to simply as the Two Goddesses or even as Demeteres. Kore’s own enigmatic name is Persephone, or Phersephone, and in Attic Pherrephatta. In Homer she is mentioned alone and also in conjunction with her husband, Hades-Aidoneus, the personification of the underworld; her Homeric epithets are venerable, agaue, and awesome, epaine. Her two aspects, girl-like daughter of the Corn Goddess and Mistress of the Dead, are linked in the myth which, though ignored in heroic epic, is responsible almost exclusively for defining the picture of Demeter. The earliest extended version is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, but Hesiod already alludes to it in the Theogony as an ancient and well known story, and aspects of the later tradition seem to preserve very ancient material.” ~ Walter Burkert (Greek Religion, 1985) Next: a standard

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Link; Standard

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[Octavius]

Standards - on Ar denarius of Augustus - SIGNIS RECEPTIS , celebrating return of the standards captured by the Parthians...

next , more standards...

 

[shanxi]

Aurelianus, 270 - 275
Antoninian
Obv: IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG, Bust radiate, cuirassed r., seen from front
Rev: PRO-VIDEN D-EOR , Fides Militum standing r. holding two standards, facing; Sol standing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; in exergue VXXT
Ae, 3.59g, 21.4mm
Ref.:RIC V.1, p.281,152

 

Next: Fides

[akeady]

Gens:	Licinia
Moneyer:	A. Licinius Nerva
Coin:	Silver Denarius NERVA / FIDES - Laureate head of Fides right III VIR / A LICIN - Horseman galloping right, dragging warrior who holds shield and sword
Mint:	Rome (47 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis:	4.00g / 21mm / 9h
References:	RSC 24c (Licinia) Sydenham 954 Crawford 454/1
Provenances:	Andrew McCabe
Acquisition:	Roma Numismatics Online Auction May Auction #1268 21-May-2013

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Ragged flan

Volusian, AR Antoninianus, Antioch.. AD 251-253. 22 mm, 4,30 g
IMP C V AF GAL VEND VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right, / ADVENTVS AVG, Volusian on horseback, riding left, holding spear and raising right hand. RIC IV 224a; RSC 2a.

NEXT: Emperor on horseback

[Ancient Coin Hunter]

Lucius Verus, 161-169 A.D. Type: AE As, 25.5 mm 12.1 grams, R1 according to ACSearch

Obverse: L VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, Bare-Headed Bust Facing Right

Reverse: TRP IIII IMP II COS III, Emperor on Horseback Charging right holding spear, riding down foe.

Reference: RIC 1404 

Next: Bare-headed bust

[shanxi]

Hostilian
Syria, Antiochia
Billon tetradrachm
Obv.: Γ OYAΛ OCTIΛIAN ME KYINTOC KECAB, bareheaded and draped bust right, S below
Rev.: ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞΟΥCIAC, eagle standing right on palm branch, holding wreath in beak, SC below
Billon, 13.16g, 26.1x28.1mm
Ref.: Prieur 651

 

Next: Hostilian

[Octavius]

Antoninianus of Hostilian with Mars advancing holding spear and shield.

Next, his brother Herenius...

[Qcumbor]

29 minutes ago, Octavius said:

Next, his brother Herenius...

 

Herennius Etruscus, Cesar (249-251) - Tetradrachme de billon de l'atelier d'Antioche, 247 - 7° officine 

ЄPЄNN ЄTPOY MЄ KY ΔЄKIOC KЄCAP Buste drapé à droite vu par l'arriere. Z sous le buste
ΔHMAPX ЄΞOYCIAC Aigle à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant une couronne dans son bec et une palme dans ses serres. A l'exergue SC
28 mm, 10.24 g, 7 h
Ref : Prieur #640, McAlee #1153g, RPC vol IX # 1773

Next : either Tajan Decius or Herennia Etruscilla

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[Ancient Coin Hunter]

Trajan Decius A.D. 249-251 AR Antoninianus, 4.1 grams, 23 mm Rome mint

Obverse: IMP C M Q TRAJANVS DECIVS AVG, Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right

Reverse: ABVND ANTIA AVG; Abundantia standing right, emptying cornucopiae held in both hands.

Reference: RIC IVc 10b, p. 121 From: the Arnoldoe collection (Cointalk)

Next: Herennia Etruscilla

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Herrenia Etruscilla, wife of Trajan Decius. 249-251 AD.
AR Antoninianus
Obverse: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG. Diademed and draped bust right on crescent.
Reverse: PVDICITIA AVG. Pudicitia seated left holding sceptre and drawing veil from her face.
RIC IV 59b. Hunter 5; RSC 19
 Rome mint, A.D. 250.  3,8 g – 20,5 mm

NEXT: Pudicitia

[shanxi]

Faustina II
AR-Denar, Rome
Obv.: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right.
Rev.: PVDICITIA, Pudicitia standing facing, head left, drawing veil and holding hem of skirt
Ag, 3.24g, 16.7x18.7mm
Ref.: RIC III 507a, CRE-206 [C]

 

Next: drawing/holding veil, but not Pudicitia

Edited August 28 by shanxi

[DonnaML]

6 hours. I have no coins of anyone veiled who's drawing or holding that veil, other than coins showing Pudicitia.

Here's someone with a veil who isn't touching it. Next: more sacrificial implements.

Roman Republic, P. [Publius] Sulpicius Galba, AR Denarius, 69 BCE. Obv. Veiled head of Vesta right, S•C• [Senatus consulto] downwards behind / Rev. Sacrificial implements (Long knife [secespita], short-handled simpulum or culullus,* and single-bladed axe [securis] ornamented with lion’s head, left to right), AE in left field, CVR in right field [together = Aedilis Curulis]; in exergue, P•GALB.** Crawford 406/1, RSC I [Babelon] Sulpicia 7, Sear RCV I 345, BMCRR 3517, Harlan, RRM I Ch. 28 at pp. 160-163 [Harlan, Michael, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012)], Sydenham 839, RBW Collection 1454.*** 18 mm., 3.97 g. Purchased from Kölner Münzkabinett, April 2021; ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 347, Lot 918, March 22, 2021. (With 19^th-Century handwritten French-language coin ticket, citing Babelon Sulpicia 6 [bearing the reverse legend AED-CVR] on one side, and Babelon Sulpicia 7 [this coin-type, bearing the reverse legend AE-CVR] on the other.)[Double die match to http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b06#schaefer.rrdp.b06_0214 , Binder 06, p. 165.1, Col. 3, Row 4, No. 444.]

 

* “Culullus: The Culullus is a horn-shaped vessel like the rhython held aloft by the Penates, holding milk or wine. This was an emblem of the Vestales Virgines as well as of the pontifices.” https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Culullus. But see Jones, John Melville, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (Seaby, London 1990) (entry for “Culillus or culullus” at pp. 78-79): “This is said to have been the name of a drinking cup used in religious ceremonies by the Roman pontifices and Vestal Virgins. For this reason the digger or scoop which appears on the reverse of a denarius of P. Sulpicius Galba issued in 69 BC, with a head of Vesta on the obverse, has been identified as a culillus. It seems, however, to be only a simpulum, perhaps with a slightly shorter handle than usual.” See also Jones, entry for “Simpulum” at p. 290: “the name for a ladle made of earthenware which was one of the traditional implements of the pontifices at Rome. It should be distinguished from a culullus, which was a drinking vessel.” 

**The moneyer is known to have been “appointed one of the judges in the trial against Verres in B.C. 70 [for extortion and corruption as provincial governor of Sicily, prosecuted by Cicero; see https://www.famous-trials.com/gaius-verres] but was rejected by Verres on account of his reputation for severity. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship in B.C. 63, and he is mentioned as pontifex in B.C. 57, and augur in B.C. 49.” (BMCRR Vol. I at p. 433 n. 1.) See also Harlan, RRM I at 160 (quoting Cicero’s characterization of Sulpicius Galba, in a letter to his brother Atticus in July 65 BCE, as “sobrius et sanctus”).  Crawford states at Vol. I p. 418 that the moneyer was already a pontifex (i.e., a member of the senior college of priests) at the time of his term as moneyer in 69 BCE -- as is demonstrated by the head of Vesta on the obverse of this coin (given that the pontiffs had oversight of the ceremonies of Vesta; see Harlan, RRM I at p. 161), as well as the depiction of sacrificial implements on the reverse. 

The moneyer’s position as curule aedile in 69 BCE, expressly mentioned in the coin’s reverse legend (AE - CVR), was separate from his status as a pontifex.  There were two curule aediles -- i.e., patrician aediles entitled to use the sella curulis (curule chair) -- at any given time in Rome. They were the magistrates charged with “the general administration of the city and its buildings and the organizing of public games and spectacles.” (See Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins, supra, entry for “Aedile” at p. 5.) See also the NumisWiki entry for “Aediles Curules,” from Stevenson’s A Dictionary of Roman Coins (1889), at https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Aediles%20Curules: “To the curule ediles were entrusted the care of the sacred edifices (especially the temple of Jupiter), the tribunals of justice, the city walls, and the theatres; in short, all that was essential to the religion, defence, and embellishment of the city, came under their cognizance.”  According to Harlan (RRM I at p. 163), this coin represents “the first time under the Sullan constitution that an aedile minted” as moneyer. The specific special purpose for the Senate’s authorization of this issue (as signified by the “S•C” on the obverse) is unknown, although Harlan suggests (id.) that the purpose may have been related to the need to purchase extra grain from Sicily to alleviate the severe grain shortages during that period, exacerbated by Verres’s peculations as provincial governor. Cf. the Stevenson entry on Aediles Curules quoted in NumisWiki at the link above, citing various coin issues expressly depicting corn ears, and noting that “[t]he addition of EX. S. C. denotes that those Curule Ediles purchased wheat for the supply of the Roman population, with the public money, by authority of the Senate.” 

***The coin pictured as RBW Collection 1454 (at p. 301 of the book) is actually the same type as this coin ([RSC I] Babelon Sulpicia 7, bearing the reverse legend AE - CVR), even though the book’s text (at p. 300) erroneously identifies it as [RSC I] Babelon Sulpicia 6, mistakenly characterizing it as bearing the reverse legend AED-CVR. (Both types have the same Crawford number, namely 406/1.)  The RBW Collection coin was sold by Numismatic Ars Classica (NAC) with that erroneous identification on May 17, 2012. Interestingly, NAC proceeded to sell at least two other Sulpicius Galba AE-CVR examples in 2015, and another in 2016, all with the exact same erroneous identification as purportedly bearing the AED-CVR legend.

Edited August 28 by DonnaML

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Vespasian Denarius, Rome 72-73 AD. RIC 360, (RIC [1962] 50), RSC 574, BMC 71 SEAR 2316. 18mm, 3.19g.
IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII, laureate head right / VES-TA to either side of Vesta standing left, holding simpulum & scepter.

A simpulum, or simpuvium, was a small vessel or ladle with a long handle from the Roman era, used at sacrifices to make libations, and to taste the wines and other liquors which were poured on the head of the sacrificial victims.

NEXT: Another sacrificial implement(s)

[Postvmvs]

Tetricus II 273-274AD

C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, radiate, draped bust right

PIETAS AVGVSTOR implements of the augurate and pontificate: aspergillum (sprinkler), ewer (jug), secespita (knife), and lituus (augural wand)

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[Sulla80]

1 hour ago, Postvmvs said:

Tetricus II 273-274AD

C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, radiate, draped bust right

PIETAS AVGVSTOR implements of the augurate and pontificate: aspergillum (sprinkler), ewer (jug), secespita (knife), and lituus (augural wand)

Next: child emperor or caesar

Child emperor or caesar:

made clear by the size of his head that he is a young fellow: Saloninus (BI tetradrachm from Alexandria)

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[Ryro]

Next: satyr 

[Roman Collector]

1 hour ago, Ryro said:

Next: satyr 

Marsyas is a satryr. 

Tranquillina, 241-244 CE.
Roman provincial Æ 24.1 mm, 8.06 g.
Thrace, Deultum, 241-244 CE.
Obv: SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: COL FL PAC DEVLT, Marsyas as Silenus facing right, carrying wine skin over left shoulder and raising right arm.
Refs: RPC VII.2, 1057; Moushmov 3757; Youroukova 425, 4/II; cf. SNG Cop 549.

Next: Deultum. 

Edited August 29 by Roman Collector

[shanxi]

 

Julia Mamaea (222-235).
Thrace, Deultum
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, Diademed and draped bust right.
Rev: COL FL PAC DEVLT, Artemis advancing right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver; at feet, hound advancing right.
AE, 8.95g, 23.7mm
Ref.: Varbanov 2341

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